Stop Electing Werewolves

Giant robot spiders and the many flavors of genius: this off-the-grid toymaker sounds like one of the good kind. Of geniuses, I mean.

Why do we still refer to the “horsepower” of cars? The Atlantic’s “A Brief History of Mechanical Horses” offers an illustration of how people will try to stuff new ways of doing things into old, familiar packages.

“The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science” examines how and why humans become immune to facts. “All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell.” -Congressman Dr. Paul Broun, M.D. (R-Ga), member of the House Science Committee. USA! USA!!!

Could it be that the GOP has a hard-on for killing PBS because it provides factual information? “My scheme would have worked, too, if it hadn’t been for you darned meddling informed voters!”.

Bill Maher puts the economic meltdown in a nutshell for you: “You don’t like the way the stewardess landed the plane after werewolves ate the flight crew? Stop electing werewolves”. When you elect people who insist government can’t work, they will do their darndest to make sure it doesn’t work. Then they bitch because you don’t reset the pins fast enough. Cripes, what a world!

“Let me just say that the right-wing bias was there in the newsroom, up-front and obvious, from the day a certain executive editor was sent down from the channel to bring us in line with their coverage. His first directive to us: Seek out stories that cater to angry, middle-aged white men who listen to talk radio and yell at their televisions. (Oh, how I’d love to stick quotation marks around what is nearly a direct quote.)” – Matt Gross, former Fox News web journalist and editor, 2003